Fran Tonkiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 6106458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fran Tonkiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fran |
| FAMILY NAME | Tonkiss |
| SIGNATURE | TONKISS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 256 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Nigel Dodd
Professor Nigel Dodd was a long-standing and much-loved member of the Editorial Board of Economy and Society. He sadly passed away in August 2022. In this short piece, we express our heartfelt gratitude for Nigel’s contributions to the journal and briefly introduce a virtual collection of 4 papers assembled to register our appreciation. The papers are free to access from the Collections section of our website throughout 2023, and include Nigel’s …
City government and urban inequalities
What potential do city governments have to prevent and mitigate worsening urban inequalities? Focusing on different urban scales of government, this discussion goes beyond the core tasks of urban service provision to consider strategies of: (i) distribution and deliberation (e.g. revenue measures, living wages or participatory budgeting); (ii) housing and planning (e.g. equity planning, inclusionary zoning, anti-displacement measures, social hous…
Other gentrifications
This special feature focuses on contemporary processes of urban transformation in Beirut, examining the interplay of speculative investment, legal instruments and political-economic networks in sha
Socialising design? From consumption to production
The notion that design should be socially engaged has become an article of architectural faith, but it is not always clear what we want from design in social terms, or want the social to do or to be within design processes. In the discussion that follows, I consider some of the core ways in which ideas of the social inform the field of spatial design. Debates over social architecture are frequently concerned with alternative and activist approach…
Afterword
‘urban life is ... a matter of what can be made relatable at any point in time’. (Simone 2011, 355)In their introduction to this special feature, Hillary Angelo and Christine Hentschel make a compell
Against Security
Austerity urbanism and the makeshift city
This paper engages with a recent set of critical arguments concerning the ‘post-crisis city’ and the political economy of ‘austerity urbanism’. The focus of the discussion is on practical interventions in the vacant and disused spaces of recessionary cities, and in particular on temporary designs and provisional uses. In this way, it opens a further line of argument about urbanism under conditions of austerity, alongside analyses of the formal po…
The one-dimensional city
On the day that Occupy London's appeal against the eviction order from its St Paul's encampment was rejected in the UK Court of Appeal, a spokesman for the Corporation of the City of London summed up the problem: ‘Peaceful protest is a democratic right but the camp is clearly in breach of highway and planning law.’ The bathos of the statement is to the point: democratic principle is one thing, but the city's obligation to keep the highway clear c…
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non‐profit organization that brings together corporate and political leaders and academic, media, and civil society actors at annual meetings and regional fora. Founded in Geneva in 1971 as the European Management Forum, the organization has expanded from a European business network to a “global” institution and was renamed to reflect this aspiration in 1987. Its annual meetings in Davos, Switzer…
Building Globalization
Template urbanism
No Abstract
Spatial causes, social effects
The Just City
The market and the plan
The British Journal of Sociology in the 1970s
In 1977, on the occasion of the forty-third Hobhouse Memorial Lecture presented at the London School of Economics and published in the December issue of the British Journal of Sociology, Daniel Bell noted that the first was given in 1930 by J.A. Hobson on the topic 'Towards Social Equality': 'are there no constants in sociological thought?'Bell (1977: 419) asked, 'or is it that there is no progress?' Reviewing the contents of the BJS over the 197…
The British Journal of Sociology in the 2000s
The British Journal of Sociology entered its sixth decade along with a new century. It was a moment, as elsewhere, for millennial reflections - although sociologists were no longer much given to making predictions. Looking back at the Journal over the ten years since, it is not yet clear how the 2000s hold together as a period of sociological research and debate. John Urry, who wrote the introduction to the first issue of the decade, began by not…
New Manifestations
This discussion traces certain common problematics for the political mobilisations of 1968 and the movements that have coalesced around and against contemporary processes of globalisation. The extended 'events' of 1968 conceived of political action and political subjects in ways that have been profoundly influential on the forms of activism which characterise the politics of anti- or alter-globalisation, but the connections to be made between the…
World City - By Doreen Massey
Postcapitalist politics
Developing their earlier arguments against the centrality given to capitalist relations in economic analysis, J. K. Gibson-Graham's recent work has sought to outline the contours of a ‘postcapitalist politics’ based on a more diverse set of economic arrangements. Their aim is to go beyond the level of critique to explore economic alternatives; at the same time, their account is levelled at the pessimism of the ‘resigned’ left. Keywords: postcapit…
Contemporary Economic Sociology
Contemporary Economic Sociology closely examines critical and contemporary issues in the sociology of economic life. Bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives, Fran Tonkiss examines major shifts in the organization of economy and society - from the politics of globalization to the cultural economy, social exclusion and the 'end' of class. This new volume is organized around three core themes (globalization, production and inequality) …
Space, the city and social theory
Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market
The Ethics of Indifference
Modern social theory has frequently represented city life as isolating, as degrading of social ties and as inimical to community. In another register, however, urban contexts have also been primary sites for imagining and re-imagining forms of community, especially on the basis of shared social spaces or elective identities. The discussion in this article explores this relation between solitude and community in the city. While a language of commu…
Trust and Civil Society
The third influence
English Accounts of British Labour’s ‘third way’ tend to leave out an important antecedent for Blair’s ‘new’ politics – the Australian Labor governments of 1983–96. In this article, we argue that labour governments in Australia and Britain have pursued similar strategies for melding neoliberalism with social democracy. Key failures of Australian Labor are instructive for thinking about the future of the New Labour project, while the progressive f…
Austerity urbanism and the makeshift city
This paper engages with a recent set of critical arguments concerning the ‘post-crisis city’ and the political economy of ‘austerity urbanism’. The focus of the discussion is on practical interventions in the vacant and disused spaces of recessionary cities, and in particular on temporary designs and provisional uses. In this way, it opens a further line of argument about urbanism under conditions of austerity, alongside analyses of the formal po…
The Ethics of Indifference
Modern social theory has frequently represented city life as isolating, as degrading of social ties and as inimical to community. In another register, however, urban contexts have also been primary sites for imagining and re-imagining forms of community, especially on the basis of shared social spaces or elective identities. The discussion in this article explores this relation between solitude and community in the city. While a language of commu…
Trust, Confidence and Voluntary Organisations
Recent debates within social and political theory, and within the public sphere more generally, reveal growing concern with issues of `trust'. While forms of voluntary association frequently are cited as prime examples of trust relations, they rarely provide a focus for such debates. In this paper we examine current developments within the voluntary sector in Britain, arguing that the relation of voluntary organisations to questions of trust is i…
Afterword
‘urban life is ... a matter of what can be made relatable at any point in time’. (Simone 2011, 355)In their introduction to this special feature, Hillary Angelo and Christine Hentschel make a compell
Postcapitalist politics
Developing their earlier arguments against the centrality given to capitalist relations in economic analysis, J. K. Gibson-Graham's recent work has sought to outline the contours of a ‘postcapitalist politics’ based on a more diverse set of economic arrangements. Their aim is to go beyond the level of critique to explore economic alternatives; at the same time, their account is levelled at the pessimism of the ‘resigned’ left. Keywords: postcapit…
Template urbanism
No Abstract
The third influence
English Accounts of British Labour’s ‘third way’ tend to leave out an important antecedent for Blair’s ‘new’ politics – the Australian Labor governments of 1983–96. In this article, we argue that labour governments in Australia and Britain have pursued similar strategies for melding neoliberalism with social democracy. Key failures of Australian Labor are instructive for thinking about the future of the New Labour project, while the progressive f…
City government and urban inequalities
What potential do city governments have to prevent and mitigate worsening urban inequalities? Focusing on different urban scales of government, this discussion goes beyond the core tasks of urban service provision to consider strategies of: (i) distribution and deliberation (e.g. revenue measures, living wages or participatory budgeting); (ii) housing and planning (e.g. equity planning, inclusionary zoning, anti-displacement measures, social hous…
Socialising design? From consumption to production
The notion that design should be socially engaged has become an article of architectural faith, but it is not always clear what we want from design in social terms, or want the social to do or to be within design processes. In the discussion that follows, I consider some of the core ways in which ideas of the social inform the field of spatial design. Debates over social architecture are frequently concerned with alternative and activist approach…
Spatial causes, social effects
The one-dimensional city
On the day that Occupy London's appeal against the eviction order from its St Paul's encampment was rejected in the UK Court of Appeal, a spokesman for the Corporation of the City of London summed up the problem: ‘Peaceful protest is a democratic right but the camp is clearly in breach of highway and planning law.’ The bathos of the statement is to the point: democratic principle is one thing, but the city's obligation to keep the highway clear c…
The Just City
The British Journal of Sociology in the 1970s
In 1977, on the occasion of the forty-third Hobhouse Memorial Lecture presented at the London School of Economics and published in the December issue of the British Journal of Sociology, Daniel Bell noted that the first was given in 1930 by J.A. Hobson on the topic 'Towards Social Equality': 'are there no constants in sociological thought?'Bell (1977: 419) asked, 'or is it that there is no progress?' Reviewing the contents of the BJS over the 197…
Trust, Confidence and Voluntary Organisations
Recent debates within social and political theory, and within the public sphere more generally, reveal growing concern with issues of `trust'. While forms of voluntary association frequently are cited as prime examples of trust relations, they rarely provide a focus for such debates. In this paper we examine current developments within the voluntary sector in Britain, arguing that the relation of voluntary organisations to questions of trust is i…
Trust and Civil Society
Trust and Civil Society offers an original and accessible analysis of the meaning of 'trust' in a range of critical contexts: voluntary organizations, faith associations, the economy, the state and welfare, environmental issues and charity. Balancing theory with grounded analysis, and drawing on interdisciplinary and international perspectives, the book makes an important contribution to contemporary debates. It will be of interest to academics, …
Trust and Civil Society
The third influence
English Accounts of British Labour’s ‘third way’ tend to leave out an important antecedent for Blair’s ‘new’ politics – the Australian Labor governments of 1983–96. In this article, we argue that labour governments in Australia and Britain have pursued similar strategies for melding neoliberalism with social democracy. Key failures of Australian Labor are instructive for thinking about the future of the New Labour project, while the progressive f…
Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market
The Ethics of Indifference
Modern social theory has frequently represented city life as isolating, as degrading of social ties and as inimical to community. In another register, however, urban contexts have also been primary sites for imagining and re-imagining forms of community, especially on the basis of shared social spaces or elective identities. The discussion in this article explores this relation between solitude and community in the city. While a language of commu…
Space, the city and social theory
Contemporary Economic Sociology
Contemporary Economic Sociology closely examines critical and contemporary issues in the sociology of economic life. Bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives, Fran Tonkiss examines major shifts in the organization of economy and society - from the politics of globalization to the cultural economy, social exclusion and the 'end' of class. This new volume is organized around three core themes (globalization, production and inequality) …
New Manifestations
This discussion traces certain common problematics for the political mobilisations of 1968 and the movements that have coalesced around and against contemporary processes of globalisation. The extended 'events' of 1968 conceived of political action and political subjects in ways that have been profoundly influential on the forms of activism which characterise the politics of anti- or alter-globalisation, but the connections to be made between the…
World City - By Doreen Massey
Postcapitalist politics
Developing their earlier arguments against the centrality given to capitalist relations in economic analysis, J. K. Gibson-Graham's recent work has sought to outline the contours of a ‘postcapitalist politics’ based on a more diverse set of economic arrangements. Their aim is to go beyond the level of critique to explore economic alternatives; at the same time, their account is levelled at the pessimism of the ‘resigned’ left. Keywords: postcapit…
The market and the plan
The British Journal of Sociology in the 1970s
In 1977, on the occasion of the forty-third Hobhouse Memorial Lecture presented at the London School of Economics and published in the December issue of the British Journal of Sociology, Daniel Bell noted that the first was given in 1930 by J.A. Hobson on the topic 'Towards Social Equality': 'are there no constants in sociological thought?'Bell (1977: 419) asked, 'or is it that there is no progress?' Reviewing the contents of the BJS over the 197…
The British Journal of Sociology in the 2000s
The British Journal of Sociology entered its sixth decade along with a new century. It was a moment, as elsewhere, for millennial reflections - although sociologists were no longer much given to making predictions. Looking back at the Journal over the ten years since, it is not yet clear how the 2000s hold together as a period of sociological research and debate. John Urry, who wrote the introduction to the first issue of the decade, began by not…
Template urbanism
No Abstract
Spatial causes, social effects
The Just City
The one-dimensional city
On the day that Occupy London's appeal against the eviction order from its St Paul's encampment was rejected in the UK Court of Appeal, a spokesman for the Corporation of the City of London summed up the problem: ‘Peaceful protest is a democratic right but the camp is clearly in breach of highway and planning law.’ The bathos of the statement is to the point: democratic principle is one thing, but the city's obligation to keep the highway clear c…
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non‐profit organization that brings together corporate and political leaders and academic, media, and civil society actors at annual meetings and regional fora. Founded in Geneva in 1971 as the European Management Forum, the organization has expanded from a European business network to a “global” institution and was renamed to reflect this aspiration in 1987. Its annual meetings in Davos, Switzer…
Building Globalization
Austerity urbanism and the makeshift city
This paper engages with a recent set of critical arguments concerning the ‘post-crisis city’ and the political economy of ‘austerity urbanism’. The focus of the discussion is on practical interventions in the vacant and disused spaces of recessionary cities, and in particular on temporary designs and provisional uses. In this way, it opens a further line of argument about urbanism under conditions of austerity, alongside analyses of the formal po…
Afterword
‘urban life is ... a matter of what can be made relatable at any point in time’. (Simone 2011, 355)In their introduction to this special feature, Hillary Angelo and Christine Hentschel make a compell
Against Security
Socialising design? From consumption to production
The notion that design should be socially engaged has become an article of architectural faith, but it is not always clear what we want from design in social terms, or want the social to do or to be within design processes. In the discussion that follows, I consider some of the core ways in which ideas of the social inform the field of spatial design. Debates over social architecture are frequently concerned with alternative and activist approach…
Other gentrifications
This special feature focuses on contemporary processes of urban transformation in Beirut, examining the interplay of speculative investment, legal instruments and political-economic networks in sha
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)